Mobile Applications Development

 

Mobile Applications Development

 

Unit title & code	CIS099-2 Mobile Applications Development
Assignment number and title	Referral Assessment 1 – Individual Mobile Application Design Report
Assessment type	Individual Report
Weighting of assessment	30%
Unit learning outcomes	1. Identify and critically review related mobile applications, methods and technologies used for the design, development and evaluation of the relevant mobile applications.  2.  Design, develop and evaluate a cross platform mobile application using the suitable methods and technologies.

 

 

 

 

 

What am I required to do in this assignment?

This is an individual report-based assignment (30%). Every student must design a mobile application and produce a clear and consistent report to describe your market research, design, and evaluation plan. The requirements are further explained in the following Deliverable section. Note: you do not need to develop the app, so please let the technical constrains to stop you deliver an amazing design.     You need to select one project from the two projects described below.    Project Choice 1: A Mobile Application  Design a mobile application of your choice. Be creative!    Project Choice 2: A Mobile Game  Design a mobile game of your choice. Be creative!    The report must be submitted online ONLY on BREO by the deadline specified. Two submission attempts are allowed and ONLY the final attempt will be marked. The report file should be named in the following format: 12345678-CIS099-2 where 12345678 should be replaced with your own Student ID number.

Is there a size limit?

Develop a report (10 pages max)

What do I need to do to pass? (Threshold Expectations from UIF)

Identify and explain the target user group for a chosen mobile application.   Identify and evaluate the relevant mobile applications, methods and technologies in mobile application design and prototyping.  Create the personas and use cases for the application design.  Design the prototype of the mobile application.   Provide a plan for the evaluation at different stages.

How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade?

Deliverable  Follow the layout below to address the requirement(s) for this assignment. Please make sure you read and understand the weighting and marking scheme, so that you can produce a design that will meet the grade you aim for.     Develop a report covering the following structure (10 pages max) *.                     1.App Introduction (suggested 3 pages max.)  oProject background  and problem identification.  oPropose your idea to solve the problem and the aim and objectives of the project  oSecondary market research for the project including the related application review.    2.App Design (suggested 6 pages max)  oExplain who will be target users of your App and why; carry out a primary market research with your target users (Please enclose the questionnaire/interview script that you used in the Appendix, which will not be count into the page limit.)  oBased on your primary market research data analysis results (Please enclose the primary market research data analysis result in the appendix, which will not be count into the page limit.), develop two personas and scenarios and their use cases for your App.  oPresent your App prototype (sketches/screenshots, etc.) with annotation based on the design guidelines/principles, lessons learnt from the secondary market research and the preferences of your personas from the primary market research.    3.App Evaluation Plan (suggested 1 pages max)  oDescribe your user evaluation plan at different stages of your app design and development based on DECIDE framework (and preliminary evaluation results if there is any at this stage). The key questions to answer are: What do you want to evaluate? Which evaluation methods and techniques are you going to use? Who are you going to evaluate with? What are the success factors of your evaluation? Are there any practical or ethical issues that you need to be aware of when you carry out the user evaluation?     *The subsections above are a guide not an exhaustive list.

How does assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions?

You will learn the knowledge and skills that are required in the assessment 1 from the mobile application design sessions. For example, how to do market research and critically review related mobile applications, how to define your target users, how to develop personas and use cases, how to prototyping and how to develop evaluation plans.

 

 

 

 

 

How will my assignment be marked?

Your assignment be marked according to the threshold expectations and the criteria on the following page.    You can use them to evaluate your own work and estimate your grade before you submit.

	Lower 2nd – 50-59%	Upper 2nd – 60-69%	1st Class – 70%+
1	Report should cover all of the information required in the deliverable. Satisfactory information and structure. Basic understand of the tasks. Some discussion with good ideas, but rather brief.	Report should cover all of the information required in the deliverable. Content & structure of report are good. Clear understanding of tasks. Good idea with good reasoning.	Report should cover all of the information required in the deliverable. Well written report, carefully structured with excellent understanding of tasks. Clear, effectively produced. Original ideas well documented.
2	Reasonably comprehensive market research Some lack of clarity and little or no originality.	Comprehensive market research. At least one innovative or original idea shown.	Comprehensive market research covering all aspects of concept Innovative and original ideas.
3	Demonstrates good understanding of essential concepts and user needs with some originality and adequate functionality implemented.	Demonstrates good understanding of essential concepts and user needs with significant originality and good functionality implemented.	Demonstrates a high degree of originality and innovation as well as excellent understanding of concepts and user needs. Outstanding functionality implemented.